Independence Girls

Posted by Viktor at 7:38 pm
Categories: Israel, Photos, Travel

Separated by four years and five thousand miles (according to this handy World Distance Calculator), these two girls share the same sentiment nonetheless. One is celebrating Israel’s 56th anniversary on 26 April 2004; the other, 62 years of South Korean independence on 01 March 2008. Charming, aren’t they?

[Update: the Korean photo is Stefan's, of course]



Palaestinensische Staatenvermehrung

Posted by Viktor at 10:59 am
Categories: Israel, Politics and World Affairs

Wir haben alles gesehen: einseitiges “Disengagement”, zweiseitige Verhandlungen, vierseitige Nahost-Quartette.

Nun endlich: die dreiseitige Loesung des Nahost-Konfliktes! Vergesst die Zweistaaten-Loesung, wir haben die Dreistaaten-Loesung…

“As of today, the Palestinians can boast that they have two entities – one in the Gaza Strip run by Muslim fundamentalists and another one in the West Bank under the control of secular Fatah leaders.”

(Khaled Abu Toameh in der Jerusalem Post)

Und hier steht, wer schuld ist.